@PSYCOGEEK yes I remember hearing about this... interesting but my parts are already 2 months old, there was no stench! :) it must be the powersupply or just that smelly paper tray I had on the floor.. it was fresh from an item I unboxed go figure.
my powersupply is... 4 years old?
..anyways I left my case open for that air to air out and it doesnt really smell anymore except a teensy bit from inside the power supply so maybe I did blow a cap :/
interesting. capacitors advertised as solid cannot blow?
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere plug one into a wall socket. they probably blow "different" :-) more solid. a normal elecrolytical cap blows with much fan fare, and confetti and (before they had safety releaces) with force of air like firecracker was in them.
Is there a way to manually get an NVIDIA GPU to drop its power state to a low-power mode, like it does when throttled automatically due to power or thermal limits?
there is still many non-solid caps used in much computer stuff. especially power supplies still, and cheaper motherboards, and less critical locations of motherboard power cleanup stuff.
Any board worth its salt will use high-quality Japanese caps in all the important areas. Lower-quality capacitors will likely degrade over time ultimately resulting in unstable or unreliable performance. Outright explosive failure of capacitors is not exactly common these days under non-abusive conditions, though.
@bwDraco underclock? it . there are many overclocking utilities for either video card to do that. In ATi (for example) you can lock down a low rate right in their own software, and make a profile for it.
hmm mine does, but not like idle, just like the slightly lower voltage it uses at that rate. Like i set 300-300 as a "green" and it will potentially go to 150-150 and then it starts being less stable.
It drops to something like 1V, but i would have to look closer.
ahh ATi also has that "power" thing, where you can set the limitation based on actual power, even if it is clocked normal
stable, tear it apart (every 2 years) and redo all the thermals
put a ducted fan on the ouput , to increase the flow a bit when on the desktop?
Feed the AC unit direct, (ducted) into the input or general area around it. I actually have that possibility here. 1/2 the window AC goes down a simple vent duct , and can be pointed anywhere.
dont bother with "ultra" setting, use High? Adjust: Ambient occlusion, shadows Any refection settings Foilage distance Turn off DOF and Motion blur
Those things(seem) to take lots of power for little or negative benefits, just gernerally
Play games from 2009 :-) yea what is it, i have played many games that were made back when that GPU power was not available. many of them look Just As Good, some of them certannly are old crappy grafics.
Is cool playing slightly older games on thier "ultra" settings, with my video card clocked to 300-300 :-) when they still look good.
when they look like a 1950s version of doom, not so much :-)
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere electrolytics blow. Other caps may fail in other ways. That said, there's a specific 'vintage' of cheap caps that were more likely to blow and they're still preferred for filter caps.
OK, I'm lucky enough to have the game run smoothly enough for my tastes on the Ultra settings - so with all the game-provided settings set to maximum.
Most of the time it looks brilliant. However, once you find a large open space, and then can see the distance rendering cut-offs, such as these d...
I hate short draw distances, My EYES dont work like that, they also dont blur :-) as things move faster, and my eyes are not a camera taking portraits , things i look at tend to be in focus :-) For me some of the "work" they do doesnt help reality
much flowers and grass though are many many verticies, seeing a textured mountain in the distance, may be "easy" for a gpu to render. rendering 30,000 grass blades not so much. So when given the option, i might tweak it back a bit.
First time I saw 3D rendered lower canopy, that looked like it could choke a GPU was Farcry. I was hoping they had some "clone render" technique ??? to pull that off.
It is all so amazing anyways, when just a few years ago, scenes even partly that sofisticated would take an hour to render each one. How far they have come. Watching a game review, i always agree with the things they hate, but we have come so far that early 3D was ameoba , not even caveman
when hiking, i carry "lava" soap for poisen ivy, poisen oak, immediataly removing the plant oils, much like hot pepper oils, and the huge pain ends quick.
that is before grinding them into the live skin, by scratching the itch
really. whatever happened to the idea of space planes? why is it not viable to fly normally with aerodynamic lift through the atmosphere , with a plane like item that is space compatable?
then to land it again like a plane, instead of a "pair of pliers" (description used for landing the shuttle)
@Psycogeek The shuttle slows down initially by flying backwards and using its engines. Conventional aircraft tend not to perform very well flying backwards.
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. They were used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational...
@Psycogeek Basically, they're already going very very very fast (sideways). When they slow down, they don't go sideways fast enough and so they fall into the atmosphere. They can't really slow down slower because as soon as you reach "fall into the atmosphere" drag slows you down even faster.
They have to shed speed somehow. Part of that is done by drag, which heats the shuttle up to 1500 C (hence the ceramic tiles). The drag also produces extreme forces which would rip the wings off a conventional aircraft.
for a while when they quit doing moon missions and reduced the NASA stuff and the space "race" , i was Ok with it. because it seemed like this planet is not yet ready. When you have to pretty much destroy everything, to really become space born. Space-X landing and re-useing the stuff is at least some hope.
@Bob The drag could be reduced by flying nose first instead of 40 degrees nose up. Downside would be more heat (less drag == flying faster == more friction) and the shuttle would burn up.
@DavidPostill so then what is the deal with the upper atmosphere that they encounter so much substance at once? and not wisping through a bit of hydrogen helium for a while as they enter?
IMO it is because they are entering too fast, because they dont have wings.
so it is all about the transition , from low-substance centrifugal high speed spin to defy gravity (orbit) , to crashing stupidly into the high substance , that could provide areodynamic lifts, and be plane like.
@HackToHell my last motherboard the caps right under the video card were slowly being destroyed from heat. The GPU had not only the normal heat, being ducted mostly out back, but the RAM modules themselves were the main heat source.
with the new idea of stacking ram next to the die, that specific thing would not have existed.
Ahh if i had only known (thermal pics) i could have addressed it, like I had everything else covered.
What occured was it started acting flakey about a year ago, the voltage was dropping on the (overclocked) CPU, so for much time it survived because I cranked the voltage up again in the bios, and lowered the overclock.
this time it is probably the Raid card, that thinks it is a whole computer, cooking the same basic area. so much for "cool & quiet"
and really this raid card isnt that much faster than the old stuff was, so what wonderous new method of spinning processing wheels for i dont know. When it aint doing nothing, the processor on the raid card just cooks away. Same thing with the other brand tested.
Might as well be searching for extra terrestrials :-)
serverfault.com/questions/541816/… a cooking LSI raid card. Why arent people asking WHY these cards are so hot when they are doing Nothing at all? I wonder if mine in the array of possible adjustments could be told to cool it and lose a few miliseconds.
Infinate Loop - On / Off Seriously bad programming - Default / Worse Do what intel would do - Today / tomorrow
There must be thousands of servers that when mostly parked are sucking up enough energy to charge allquixotic prius 10 times over.
I've experienced problem with uploading file on the web. I use Trisquel GNU/Linux and Abrowser as default web browser. In an (on-line) application form, there is option to upload document allowing formates pdf and jpeg. When I've tried to upload pdf document, site shows error "only odf and jpeg files can be uploaded". So, in-spite of uploading pdf file, I was getting such error.
Later on I've tried IceCat and file(s) are uploaded successfully.
So, I want to know what should be the reason for such a problem?
my cousin came to our house yesterday and he steal my wifi password with an android software but he didn't tell me what was the software. is there anybody here know i got some software but they were bullshit
@Sandra well we didnt ask what method of security your wi-fi uses? there is a rather old method that was supposed to be really easy to break into using MITM or something
superuser.com/questions/1081793/… , ohh advanced question. "Since any "read" operation on the card will lessen the chance of recovery" wow the things you can learn from "very knowledgeable". did he mean write?
to google everything is fair use , fair to Redirect, cache, collect, distribute , and stuff ads on. google is biggest pirate and spammer on the whole web, and We Love it :-)
Speaking of re-direct, there actually were laws and mutterings about what is legal to link web sites, some countries disagreed on things. Like deep linking vrses front page lining etc, and the ramifications of one site using (linking) to only the best part of another.
there was also a big to-do about google cacheing everything. making google the "source" for other peoples works. google cache was much more visable then. Why visit some poor saps site who worked hard to deliver great materials if you can just view the cache .
and the employees at google are treated like KINGS , while the lonely web site, the balancer of power, the all people are equal on the web, are slaves to this master, begging for the 5cents from thier invasive ads.
Google owns us all, and thier self driving death machines will be allowed free reign to the roads, even if thier driving record is worse than yours, because the stats will say (average) the bots are better.
Heck they dont even pay taxes :-) rob from the poor give to me, Google is a huge california economy.
@JourneymanGeek "this person" was one of Oracle's lawyers in one of the most ridiculous copyright cases of the 21st century, and she writes in a tone that suggests she is very much a sore loser, because she effectively failed to prosecute her client's apparent offender
eh - I'd sell it on eBay and just say there's no warranty or responsibility for damaged or non functional parts
eBay forces you to accept the terms of their "guarantee" which guarantees that whatever you represent the item as in your advertisement, is what it does when they get it, or they get their money back
> Only the 10TB purple drive uses SMR. The rest are regular.
Hmm...
> I have used a bunch of the archive 8TB drives from seagate and wouldn't recommend them. They are soooooo slow.
> Are you sure? The 8TB Purple spec sheet that I looked at in March specifically mentioned SMR as if it was a good thing, and had a very clear workload/year rating that was around 175TB. I did the math and that was only about 11 months of Live TV buffer on a basic Roamio.
@JourneymanGeek so you're on a leash and walking your owner human and barking at him to make him understand how to install it, but he's not understanding you?